Monthly Archives: June 2015

Elections

Taylor & Francis has produced a section called Focus On: National Elections. This page makes available a “research collection” – an assortment of free access articles which makes research into electoral practices and issues available in one place. This includes links … Continue reading

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2014 Impact Factors

The Web of Science has released its impact factors for listed journals for 2014. Different people have quite divergent views on the utility of such rankings. Whatever one’s views, there is little doubt that IFs and the rankings do have … Continue reading

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Asian Journal of Women’s Studies

The Asian Center for Women’s Studies at Ewha Womans University publishes the Asian Journal of Women’s Studies. The articles and reviews in Issue 1 for 2015 are available for free download.

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Review article available for free download

About three weeks ago, we posted on Serhat Ünaldi’s review article discussing Andrew MacGregor Marshall’s long-awaited book A Kingdom in Crisis: Thailand’s Struggle for Democracy in the Twenty-First Century that was published by Zed Books. The review, titled “A Kingdom … Continue reading

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Representation in China

In a new article available at the JCA website, Tamara Jacka of the Australian National University and Wu Chengrui of the Yunnan Provincial Institute for Ethnic Studies, Yunnan University of Nationalities in Kunming, write on “Village Self-Government and Representation in … Continue reading

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The Politics of Marketising Asia

In a new review now posted to the JCA website, Karim Knio and Zuzana Novakova of the Institute of Social Studies review the edited collection, The Politics of Marketising Asia. Studies in the Political Economy of Public Policy (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2015.1054129). … Continue reading

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Resistance and subaltern studies 5

The fifth article for the feature section of our forthcoming Issue 4 in 2015 edited by Uday Chandra and Kenneth Bo Nielsen is now available at the JCA website. Part of the feature titled Rethinking Resistance: Subaltern Politics and the … Continue reading

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Museums and post-Mao representation

Regular book reviewer Kosmas Tsokhas has another review available at the JCA website (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2015.1053692). Museums in China: The Politics of Representation after Mao is published by Boydell & Brewer. Author Marzia Varutti asks why museums have become so important for … Continue reading

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Resistance and subaltern studies 4

The fourth article for the feature section of our forthcoming Issue 4 in 2015 edited by Uday Chandra and Kenneth Bo Nielsen is now available at the JCA website. Part of the feature titled Rethinking Resistance: Subaltern Politics and the … Continue reading

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The political economy of aid

Stephen Bates of Birmingham University has reviewed a 2014 Palgrave Macmillan book at JCA. The Political Economy and the Aid Industry in Asia (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2015.1051313) is written by Jane Hutchison, Wil Hout, Caroline Hughes and Richard Robison. In general terms, … Continue reading

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